Monday, April 29, 2013

Here's what's happening in Vermont news and politics this week. Lots doing in the Statehouse, as the Legislature careens toward the finish line. Got a submission for next week's calendar? Email by Friday to submit.

Monday, April 29

Congressman Peter Welch is in the Middle East this week. Details are being withheld for security reasons, but the rep departed Sunday with fellow members of the House National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations Subcommittee (or, as the kids refer to it, NSHDAFOS) for a trip that includes Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey.

At 11:30 a.m., the Burlington City Council's charter- change committee takes up the dormant assault-weapons-ban proposal. In city hall, conference room 10.

S.77, the doctor-assisted death with digni-cide bill, is on the House calendar for a second reading today and for a third reading on Wednesday. Meanwhile, House committees are considering amendments to the bill.

Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger has scheduled a bunch of press conferences this week — but he's not saying why. First one's today at 11:30 a.m., in the mayor's office.

At 7:30 a.m., the Burlington Business Association is holding a breakfast forum on health care reform to explain what the heck is gonna happen under Vermont's health care reform. In the McLure Lobby at Fletcher Allen Health Care.